Yuri Anime
Rafael Antonio Pineda has the details and a trailer for the upcoming anime adaption for Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games on ANN.
I have finally had a chance to watch The Rose of Versailles movie on Netflix and…I thought it quite wonderful. I’ll work on a review for this week.
Other News
We have a lot of reading to do this week! ^_^
Speaking of Rose of Versailles, let me recommend this 2023 article from Mehitabel Glenhaber on Anime Feminist, An Inner Revolution Of The Japanese Women: The Rose of Versailles as feminist historical fiction, which is a fantastic read.
Lucas and Steve take a look at anime that center on Cute Girls Doing Cute Things (Cutely) on This Week in Anime: Adorable Young Women Performing Lovable Activities. In 2023, I wrote a piece about that same thing, from the perspective of recovering from Long Covid in The Joy of the Everyday: Emotional Intimacy Between Women in Slice-of-Life Anime.
While I expect that most Okazu readers will be familiar with these, I also want to share Melanie Höpfler’s article on Crunchyroll, Anne Shirley and Other Anime Based on Novels.
While this is not anime-specific, it is the 5th anniversary of The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady novels. Follow the linked hashtag on X for some celebratory art by artists we know and love. ^_^
ANN’s Ken Iikura-Gross has details of a new anime-exhibition in Girls Band Cry Exhibition Brings the Anime’s Locations into the Real World.
Steve Jones look at what might be considered Rock Is A Lady’s Modesty‘s weakest episode and finds that he can’t stop talking about Tina. ^_^
Coop and Chris from ANN take a look at the wonderfulness and availability- or lack thereof – of Classic Manga in This Week in Anime: Can’t Beat the Classics. They do also discuss The Rose of Versailles manga. ^_^
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Yuri Visual Novels
We have two new Yuri VNs on the Yuricon Store. Many thanks to our returning intern Yuzhou for the help getting that section of the store updated before we head into our Yuricon site redesign.
A Witch Is Getting Married, “a story about finding comfort in uncertainty. It is also a story about witches, ghosts, pumpkin-headed parental figures, and weird little bat guys.”
Girls Made Pudding, which was reviewed here on Okazu by Staff Writer Christian Le Blanc, is a post-apocalyptic girls survival game with a cat girl maid and food.
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Yuri Manga
I’ll be playing catch up for a bit on If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die in English, but we have Volume 7 up on the Store!
Don’t miss Gakeppuchi Reijou ha Kuro Kishi-sama o Horesasetai!, Volume 2 (崖っぷち令嬢は黒騎士様を惚れさせたい!) as Clarice finds she actually is falling for Frost-sama. ^_^
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